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What is Enlightenment? : eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions / edited by James Schmidt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.Description: xiii, 563 p. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0520202252
  • 9780520202252
  • 0520202260 (pbk.)
  • 9780520202269 (pbk.)
  • 9780520202252:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190
Contents:
[PART 1: The eighteenth-century debate] Introduction : what is enlightenment? : a question, its context, and some consequences / James Schmidt -- What is to be done toward the enlightenment of the citizenry? / Johann Karl Möshen (1783) -- On the question : what is enlightenment? / Moses Mendelssohn (1784) -- An answer to the question : what is enlightenment? / Immanuel Kant (1784) -- Thoughts on enlightenment / Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1784) -- A couple of gold nuggets, from the...wastepaper, or six answers to six questions / Christoph Martin Wieland (1789) -- On freedom of thought and of the press : for princes, ministers, and writers / Ernst Ferdinand Klein (1784) -- On freedom of the press and its limits : for consideration by rulers, censors, and writers / Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1787) -- Publicity / Friedrich Karl von Moser (1792) -- Reclamation of the freedom of thought from the princes of Europe, who have oppressed it until now / Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1793) -- Letter to Christian Jacob Kraus ; Metacritique on the purism of reason / Johann George Hamann (1784) -- On enlightenment : is it and could it be dangerous to the state, to religion, or dangerous in general? : a word to be heeded by princes, statesmen, and clergy / Andreas Riem (1788) -- Something Lessing said : a commentary on Journeys of the popes / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1782) -- True and false political enlightenment / Friedrich Karl von Moser (1792) -- On the influence of enlightenment on revolutions / Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk (1794) -- Does enlightenment cause revolutions? / Johann Adam Bergk (1795).
[PART 2: Historical reflections] The Berlin Wednesday Society / Günter Birtsch -- The subversive Kant : the vocabulary of "public" and "publicity" / John Christian Laursen -- On enlightenment for the common man / Jonathan B. Knudsen -- Modern culture comes of age : Hamann versus Kant on the root metaphor of enlightenment / Garrett Green -- Jacobi's critique of the enlightenment / Dale E. Snow -- Early romanticism and the Aufklärung / Frederick C. Beiser -- Progress : ideas, skepticism, and critique-- the heritage of the Enlightenment / Rudolph Vierhaus.
[PART 3: Twentieth-century questions] What is enlightenment? / Rüdiger Bittner -- Reason against itself : some remarks on enlightenment / Max Horkheimer -- What is enlightened thinking? / Georg Picht -- What is critique? / Michel Foucault -- The unity of reason in the diversity of its voices / Jürgen Habermas -- The battle of reason with the imagination / Hartmut Böhme and Gernot Böhme -- The failure of Kant's imagination / Jane Kneller -- The gender of enlightenment / Robin May Schott -- Autonomy, individuality, and self-determination / Lewis Hinchman -- Enlightened cosmopolitanism : the political perspective of the Kantian "sublime" / Kevin Paul Geiman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-553) and index.

[PART 1: The eighteenth-century debate] Introduction : what is enlightenment? : a question, its context, and some consequences / James Schmidt -- What is to be done toward the enlightenment of the citizenry? / Johann Karl Möshen (1783) -- On the question : what is enlightenment? / Moses Mendelssohn (1784) -- An answer to the question : what is enlightenment? / Immanuel Kant (1784) -- Thoughts on enlightenment / Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1784) -- A couple of gold nuggets, from the...wastepaper, or six answers to six questions / Christoph Martin Wieland (1789) -- On freedom of thought and of the press : for princes, ministers, and writers / Ernst Ferdinand Klein (1784) -- On freedom of the press and its limits : for consideration by rulers, censors, and writers / Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1787) -- Publicity / Friedrich Karl von Moser (1792) -- Reclamation of the freedom of thought from the princes of Europe, who have oppressed it until now / Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1793) -- Letter to Christian Jacob Kraus ; Metacritique on the purism of reason / Johann George Hamann (1784) -- On enlightenment : is it and could it be dangerous to the state, to religion, or dangerous in general? : a word to be heeded by princes, statesmen, and clergy / Andreas Riem (1788) -- Something Lessing said : a commentary on Journeys of the popes / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1782) -- True and false political enlightenment / Friedrich Karl von Moser (1792) -- On the influence of enlightenment on revolutions / Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk (1794) -- Does enlightenment cause revolutions? / Johann Adam Bergk (1795).

[PART 2: Historical reflections] The Berlin Wednesday Society / Günter Birtsch -- The subversive Kant : the vocabulary of "public" and "publicity" / John Christian Laursen -- On enlightenment for the common man / Jonathan B. Knudsen -- Modern culture comes of age : Hamann versus Kant on the root metaphor of enlightenment / Garrett Green -- Jacobi's critique of the enlightenment / Dale E. Snow -- Early romanticism and the Aufklärung / Frederick C. Beiser -- Progress : ideas, skepticism, and critique-- the heritage of the Enlightenment / Rudolph Vierhaus.

[PART 3: Twentieth-century questions] What is enlightenment? / Rüdiger Bittner -- Reason against itself : some remarks on enlightenment / Max Horkheimer -- What is enlightened thinking? / Georg Picht -- What is critique? / Michel Foucault -- The unity of reason in the diversity of its voices / Jürgen Habermas -- The battle of reason with the imagination / Hartmut Böhme and Gernot Böhme -- The failure of Kant's imagination / Jane Kneller -- The gender of enlightenment / Robin May Schott -- Autonomy, individuality, and self-determination / Lewis Hinchman -- Enlightened cosmopolitanism : the political perspective of the Kantian "sublime" / Kevin Paul Geiman.

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